AURORA — It took months and multiple investigations, but Dave Logan has officially been cleared by the Colorado High School Activities Association.

On Monday, CHSAA commissioner Paul Angelico issued a statement on Logan, one of the state's best athletes and football coaches, who was fired from Mullen High School in January amid the school's insinuations that he oversaw a dirty program.

Mullen, a highly visible and successful La Sallian private school in southwest Denver, was placed on one-year probation on Friday after officials were satisfied it had corrected institutionalized problems.

"The CHSAA is not, has not and is not planning to investigate Dave Logan for anything related to the recent closure of the Mullen issue," Angelico said. "We have not received any information that would lead us to believe that we need to spend time on this matter."

Logan, the radio voice of the Broncos for 850-KOA, The Denver Post Gold Helmet winner in 1971 as the state's top senior player-student-citizen, and in his first year heading Cherry Creek, said on Monday that he felt exonerated.

"It has been a long eight months and I've seen my name on the front page of the paper and on television way too many times," he said. "But in the end, I'm happy that I've been completely cleared of any wrong doing whatsoever.

"I've said right from the first day that I've conducted myself with integrity and honesty throughout my 19 years (this will be his 20th) dealing with high school students and I'm glad that today it finally has been substantiated by a completely independent organization. That is the case and I'm glad that fact has been subtstantiated."

On Jan. 12, Mullen fired Logan, who has a 201-43 career mark, including 110-12 at Mullen with four titles.

Principal Jim Gmelich and president and CEO Ryan Clement, who no longer are with the school after overseeing the firing, were pressed for reasons to fire Logan a day later and they included Logan not being La Sallian, not teaching in the building and unnecessarily being the face of the school after became too popular.

Gmelich and Clement later hired an outside firm to conduct an internal investigation and took months to present it to the CHSAA in the correct form, but Angelico remained convinced no infractions involved Logan.

Mullen head coach Dave Logan, right, confers with linebacker Ty Young while facing Cherokee Trail in the first quarter of a high school football game in Denver on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2011. (Denver Post file photo)

While Angelico would not comment on Mullen possibly attempting to smear Logan, he told The Denver Post that "Mullen's issue was institutional ... I'm more concerned about the future than the past and of any thought of any football or any athletic program needs to be bigger than the school. It's not. All I'm concerned about is ensuring nobody has the potential or perception of those issues or any issues of the above.

"And that goes for every school in the state."

Angelico also pointed to Logan landing at a new school.

"If there were any issues from Mullen, they would carry with him," Angelico said. "We don't have any issues with Dave, not a single one."

Logan, the former multi-sport star at Wheat Ridge and the University of Colorado who played in the NFL with Cleveland and the Broncos, began his second week of preseason practice with the Greenwood Village Bruins, Colorado's largest high school

"I'm looking forward to the new challenge at Cherry Creek and now it's time to focus on the kids and football," he said.

Angelico, who said his office has had a cloud over it since the situation arose and openly worried about in-state football being in the headlines for the wrong reasons, concurred.

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